Ladies Man

1990s tv sitcom

Jimmy Stiles is a carpenter working from home, but his personal life keeps getting in the way of his work.

Jimmy Stiles is skilled carpenter, who makes furniture in his workshop adjecting to his house. He tries to keep his professional and private lives separate, which is not easy since all of his family can interrupt his workflow at any time. And he has plenty people to interrupt, he has wife Donna, ex-wife Claire, two daughter, mother and mother-in-law. As the only man in the house he is often overwhelmed by the everyday problems that he has to face. His only woman-free zone is the golf course, where together with his best friend, Gene, they discuss the relationships and life. But things can turn around when Donna gives birth to a son...

With talented cast (Alfred Molina, Stephen Root straight from NewsRadio, Betty White) and experienced author behind the series (Chris Thompson), all that was needed for Ladies Man to be success was the good set of scripts. And that is where this sitcom failed. On first glance Ladies Man was nothing but cliché of every 1990s sitcom you can think of - from characters to the soundtrack it was all just something that you have seen before. But when you look deeper...

And that is the real problem - in Ladies Man there is nothing that lays deeper. Most of the episodes were just mixture of bickering of married couple, Stephen Root doing what he did in NewsRadio and Betty White doing what she did in every of her previous sitcom (and to be fair in every of her sitcom since Ladies Man). Those three elements, with sometimes teenage daughter story thrown in had not bad atmosphere, some of the dialogues were not bad, but overall it was a very forgettable show. Which was a shame, because the cast was good, the idea was not bad, but scripts were subpar and the story too often wondered into over-sentimental tones, when Donna makes Jimmy realize how important the family is for him.

Rating	5.2
Funny	5 / 10
Entertaining	3 / 5
Characters	3 / 5
Nonrepetitive	2 / 5